Hello everyone! This is going to be a fantastic summer and our calendar for the months of April and May looks very exciting.

Our Library will be open 10.00 am to 7.00 pm right through the vacations. From the ladybird and early-reader books to our entire range of Enid Blyton, Indian fiction, Asterix, Amar Chitra Katha and mystery and detective series; there really is no excuse not to read anymore! And of course all our library members have access to our games corner with scrabble, pictionary, chess, carom and monopoly vying for attention.

Our special Summer workshops on offer combine variety, quality, fun and learning at the hands at some of the finest teachers and mentors. Here’s what Summer Sparkle 2010 has in store for the month of April!

WORKSHOPS FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL 2010

Programme

Age group

Description

Date and Time

Special information

Creative Corner

Ages 7 yrs and above

A fun filed art and craft camp where kids can try their hand at making lamp shades, fabric painting, embroidery, ceramic art, sponge flowers, jewellery making and plenty more.

Starts: 6th of April 2010 and is on till mid-May 2010.

Time: 5.00 to 6.30 pm

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Kids can sign up for any 12 days and choose what they wish to make

Mixed Bag

Ages 3 to 6 years

A 10 day session for kids that combines music, craft, stories, games, yoga/exercise and science to give the little ones a great start to the vacations.

Dates: 12th to 23rd April Time: 11.00 am to 1.00 pm

Note: The Story Club and Phonics club will continue to meet at the designated days during April.

Discovering Georgia O’Keeffe

A two-day Art workshop for Adults

This workshop on will take participants through a hand’s on step-by-step process of understanding O’Keeffe’s style of painting while finding one’s own expression. Participants will paint on canvas and take home their work by end of Day 2.

Dates: April 24th and 25th (Saturday and Sunday) from 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm

This workshop will be mentored by noted by trained faculty from LS Raheja, Mumbai and MS University, Baroda.

Quiz Club

For ages 8 to 12 years

A week long workshop that gets the kids quizzing and looking up facts and figures. Mildly competitive workshop that will focus on building Gk and quiz skills.

Dates: 19th to 24th April. Time: 4.00 to 5.00 pm

The Joy of Haiku

Open to all ages: Adults from all professions and backgrounds and children above the age of 10 yrs.

A great opportunity for teachers and students to learn and hone the fine art of creative thinking and writing

The most compressed poetry in the world, haiku has more than a four hundred year old Japanese tradition behind it. A season’s poetry or call it nature poetry, it often looks deceptively simple. This haiku workshop would present in simple easy steps how best to write one and get published too, if you pursue it with full vigour and passion.

In short you’d come to experience The Joy of Haiku and what it is to share this joy with others!!

Dates: 3 day session from April, 20th to 22nd

Time: 10.30 am to 12.30 pm

This workshop will be mentored by none other than Kala Ramesh who presently heads the World Haiku Club in India.

Kala is the deputy editor-in-chief of The World Haiku Review; is a member of the editorial team of Modern English Tanka Press’s new anthology, Take Five: The Best Contemporary Tanka 2008/2009/2010, is on the panel of the literary e-journal Muse India, for the areas of haiku and short verse; and was the in-house editor for Katha, New Delhi for the book Seeking the Beloved: The Poetry of Shah Abdul Latif (2005).

Since April 2009, she has acted as Katha’s Poetry Editor and, in this capacity, edited an e-book of haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, and haiga encompassing the work of 35 Indian haiku poets–the first such book to come from an Indian publishing house!

Please feel free to email for more information on course content and fee structure. Looking forward to some fun times at the Library! Here’s to a sparkling summer! 🙂